[398] | | MID-JULY 2008 NEW TITLES/RELEASES | |
Aviation (newly released, available now):| This is a companion volume to Farnborough: 100 Years of British Aviation by Peter Cooper, which was published in the summer of 2006. This book, however, concentrates on the activities of the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Aircraft/Aerospace Establishment at Farnborough. This department was perhaps the ... | |
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Buses (newly released, available now):| The 1960s was the final decade of London's road passenger transport being run as a single entity and this all-colour photographic portfolio presents many previously unpublished views of the buses in action. Every class of vehicle operated by London Transport between 1960 and 1969 is included, with ... | |
| The Yorkshire Traction Company Limited, universally known as 'Tracky', was formed in 1902 as The Barnsley and District Electric Traction Company Limited. It operated trams around the Barnsley locality until around 1930. In 1928, prior to the trams being withdrawn, the company title changed from the ... | |
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Military (recently released, available now):| In the spring of 1941, having abandoned his plans to invade Great Britain, Hitler turned the might of his military forces on to Stalin's soviet Russia. The German army quickly advanced far into Russia as the Soviet forces suffered defeat after defeat. With brutality and savagery displayed on both ... | |
| On the afternoon of 17 September 1944, Lieutenant Joseph Enthammer, a Wehrmacht artillery officer based in Arnhem, gazed up to the clear skies, hardly believing what he saw. White ‘snowflakes' appeared to hang in the air. ‘That cannot be' he thought. ‘It never snows in September! They must be ... | |
| D-DAY (Book) by Robert Kershaw |
| Many books have been written about the Normandy landings, but Robert Kershaw brings a new perspective by drawing heavily on German and Allied sources little used in the standard accounts. The actual landings and the subsequent few days of battle often resolved themselves into a multitude of ... | |
| There are few battles in the sometimes bloody history of the expansion of the United States in North American during the Indian Wars that are more famous than Little Bighorn. The romantic view of Custer's last stand against marauding hordes of Indians has achieved iconic status but the reality was ... | |
| There are few battles in the sometimes bloody history of the expansion of the United States in North American during the Indian Wars that are more famous than Little Bighorn. The romantic view of Custer's last stand against marauding hordes of Indians has achieved iconic status but the reality was ... | |
Railways & Tramways (newly released, available now):| This Sentimental journey is based on one undertaken by Dr.Gaius Sutton in 1957, when he visited many attractive locations. We journey mostly by steam, but a horse and some antique buses on rails are also involved. | |
| This Long Forgotten rural route had few passenger trains, but carried much local produce. This survey examines the buildings, structures, and signalling in detail and creates a comprehensive record of a past era in local transport. | |
| The series Yeadon's Register Of LNER Locomotives lists, in chronological order, details such as building and shopping dates, major and minor events, modifications, alterations, boiler and tender numbers, allocations and dates, renumberings, namings and finally the disposal of each locomotive. ... From the series Yeadon`s Register of LNER Locomotives | |
| Keith Pirt's Colour Portfolio:- Eastern & North Eastern Region Volume Two --By K Pirt This second helping of Eastern and North Eastern Region photographs contains some of Keith Pirt's more dramatic work. There are the usual locomotive portraits of all out favourites from the Pacifics of the A1, A2, ... | |
| With a quarter of a century behind it, Norfolk Southern is one of the oldest Class 1 railroads operating in North America. This illustrated history tells how Norfolk Southern came to be what it is today, from the merger of two of American railroadings most legendary roads-- Southern Railway and ... | |
| Along These Lines, explores disused rail tracks and stations re-connecting people, places and moments in time. In the process, we uncover one of Britain's greatest natural heritages. Presenter, Hannah Shellswell walks, cycles and rides disused rail tracks, sometimes alone, sometimes in conversation. | |
| The Atlas shows all currently operated common carrier, tourist and major industrial railroads along with abandoned routes. From the series Railroad Atlas Of North America | |
| The economic centre of Niedersachsen is Hanover: VW, the harbour and various aluminium processing plants. We spend time at Lehrte and at its eastern end we un-pick the knot of this busy five -way junction. On the passenger side Hanover is at the end of the north south spine NBS and the west end of ... From the series Ticket To Ride | |
| This series of programmes will take us to classic stations, depots and other railway locations around Britain, where the locomotives, liveries and rolling stock are from an era that is now long gone. Loco-hauled passenger and freight trains are in abundance, but we will see shunters and multiple ... | |
| This is the story of the thirteen ex-Great Western Railway ‘57XX' pannier tanks that passed into the ownership of London Transport. Based at both Neasden and Lillie Bridge Depots between 1957 and 1971, they handled much of the engineering traffic over surface and sub-surface lines and are ... | |
| Tony Cooke began publication of this renowned series of track layout diagrams of the old Great Western Railway and British Railways (Western Region) over 30 years ago. When the final nine parts which will complete the series are eventually issued, the series will cover every yard of trackage ever ... From the series Track Layout Diagrams | Request notification when available  |
| For most enthusiasts the Midland Region in the London area at the end of the steam era probably conjures up images of passenger services operating on the former London & North Western Railway line into and out of Euston. Hauled by glamorous express locomotives designed for the London, Midland and ... | |
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| Each volume in the 'Railways of Britain' series is based on the hugely successful and innovative two-volume atlas of the Railways of Great Britain by Colonel Michael Cobb. The individual regional titles include over 40 maps updated and revised from Cobb's original work. The maps show the railway ... | |
| The origins of the Shropshire & Montgomery Light Railway date back to the 1860s and an impecunious line called the Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway that initially opened its main line in 1866. The route stretched from a separate station in Shrewsbury as far as Llanymynech on the Cambrian ... From the series Illustrated History of … | |
| The main line from Cambridge to Ely and King's Lynn in the 1970s and 1980s featuring passenger & freight traffic with Class 37s & 31s. Freight along the Stoke Ferry branch. In and around King's Lynn, at the harbour, South Lynn and Dock branches. King's Lynn station and signal box plus the branch ... | |
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